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No - casual is fine you are in soho afterall, i went in jeans and was fine and definitely not underdressed at all.

Have you eaten at Moro - how does it compare to that? I've eaten at Fino a few times and was impressed though hated the west end dining room. I think Barrafino is by the Harts too? ← Yes fino and barrafina are both by the harts, Eddie (i think thats right?) is b ehind the counter at barrafina most nights - or at least every time i've been in, i much prefer it to fino though - as matthew says its a "proper" tapas bar where as fino is most definitely a restaurant serving tapas.

lime juice is 100% correct! Google la floridita and check out their original daiquiri recipes for further proof -Happy drinking!

I would imagine that this means you can get the staff to work straight shifts open -close and one day off (in addition to sunday) which would definitely help with keeping down the staffing costs...

You are such a tease....

Yeah i think its a shame to close between 3 and 5, thats a perfect time to enjot the tapas sized dishes they offer and i'm sure it would be financially worth it to open then.

I live in a dorm with many foreign students. Often when I'm in the lounge I can't hear the TV because people are eating so loudly. It's louder than conversation, I swear. You wouldn't believe the amount of noise someone can make with an apple! Imagine you're a kid intentionally trying to annoy your parents by making as much noise as humanly possible: that's how one guy eats the apple. And with another guy, I can't focus on what I'm reading because I know I will be distracted by the noise from his biting down hard on his fork, which occurs forcefully on every single bite. I guess this is an area where I don't have a cultural relativist stance--it seems that such table manners are objectively problematic. ← Im confused, how else are you suppposed to eat noodles without slurping? The main reason I slurp, is because they're hot eta as I type this, Im trying to slurp up some black rice noodles with clam broth without getting too much broth on the keyboards and screen ← In many cultures the slurping is considered polite and as a way of showing your appreciation - check out the website for wagamama a uk based noodle company hitting stateside this year, theyve based their whole philosophy on it....

Bon appetit!

I couldn't agree more, and sadly the first person to do this all the time is my father. He owns a restaurant that sells a garlic seasoning, and carries a shaker with him at all times, even my marinated lamb racks, that have more than enough of garlic and enough salt, get "seasoned" before tasted. My sisters look at me when he does it as I cringe. ← i will never get that - essentially everything he eats must taste exactly the same due to the "portable" seasoning, its great he likes it so much but come on! A bit of variety never killed anyone ( well not that i know of anyway...)

I discovered the joys of coldstone in NC this past summer and went on complete overload, gummi bears, kitkat pieces, everything looked soooo good - we need one of those in the UK mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

I often have a bowl of cereal late at night when i get in from work, its quick and easy and instantly satisfying. Corn flakes with cold milk and a banana sliced on top is my favourite mmmmm

i once broke up with a guy who was always rude to waiting staff in restaurants - without fail EVERY TIME. Beraing in mind i was a waitress at the time i found it completely unnacceptable behaviour and kicked him to the curb sharpish

Here's your more recent post: With these two pieces of evidence in hand, I'd like, formally, to eat my hat. In this, our kangaroo court, I suggest we toss out our charges against MargyB, and I hereby accuse the in-laws of a bait-n-switch. Our faithful member (who mispoke of "lunch" initially) was in fact expecting not a meal but a nosh, a snack, a bite to eat. So, entering the establishment, she anticipated being able to get away with ordering just that. However, the expectation of the gathered group changed while they were ordering, moving from a "cup of soup" to "full meals." This is the crucial context, for it forced our member to determine whether she would comply NOT with the original implied contract BUT rather with a new, and far more involved one. Why did this happen? Why, it probably happened because, while Margy was nervously scanning the menu for something edible, the rest of the group was having their appetites piqued by the outstanding selection of delectables. That is to say, Margy likely sat there watching herself travel further and further away from the increasingly ravenous group. Canny as she was, she attempted to find a way out: order half of a Cobb salad, the perfect item to order to address this dilemma. Pop a few cubes of ham into the mouth, push around the iceberg lettuce: it's the veggie equivalent of a "cup of soup" that can appear to be a "full meal." An ingenious solution to the social dilemma. Alas, the restaurant did not cooperate, forcing her to choose either the sorts of "full meals" that others, who ate a large breakfast just a few hours ago, are diving into in mid-afternoon. Understandably incapable of figuring out what other item that would solve this problem, she chose, merely and politely, not to order at all. I ask you: Should she have ordered a pile of food like the others and then choked it all down, causing herself to grimace and perhaps ralph, insulting the other eaters who were enjoyably munching away? No, I say! Should she have ordered a pile of food like the others and then eaten only a tiny bit, showing up all other eaters who cleaned their plates? No, I say! Should she merely have ordered the aforementioned "cup of soup," thus rudely implicating the over-ordering of the in-laws and spouse? No, I say! Is it her fault that the restaurant prevented her from eating her small Cobb salad, which would have allowed her to gesture toward the "full meal" successfully? No, I say! Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I say that Margy was placed in an impossible situation not of her own making, and did her level best to extricate herself from that situation with the minimum of trouble. That she could not do so in the end is not her fault. Who here can judge her? I rest my case. ← Hear, Hear!

iSN'T THAT A GOOD THING?

Love it!!!!

Exactly - We were only going on the limited information we had, and replying to your question. The Vitriolic responses you received were uncalled for and unnecessary but your original post certainly opened up a can of worms and stirred up some pretty strong feelings. and was an intereseting lesson in "manners" to us all. Please don't let this put you off posting again - you raised an interesting point and it would be a shame for this to put you off completely - who cares what we all think anyway?

Cardomom cosmos are delish to...

The black muscat refers to the grape variety try the Elysium range if youwant a nice inexpensive 1/2 btle (or 3!) Maury is aloso good with chocolate - another grenache based sweet red wine or reciotto ( i think thats how its spelt) which is a sweet red wine made the same way as amarone and is DELICIOU S!!

I totally agree. It is ruder to foist unwanted food or drink upon someone - whatever the reason. For god's sake, I know people who would practically hurl if asked to eat a tomato! It may sound odd to you or I but it's no less valid for them. I don't as a rule care for sweets and it really puts me off to have someone yammer away about how 'one tiny bite' won't hurt me. No, thank you, I don't care for any. That is not rude. Insisting that someone eat something they have politely declined, however, is. And the argument that you eat something to be polite or to make someone else feel better is quite often the root cause of any of a variety of eating disorders. ← But they werent trying to "foist" anything ut was supposed to be a happy family lunch one, i suspect the in laws were looking forward to and the refusal to eat when she didn't get her own way spoiled the occasion and no doubt made everyone ioncluding the poster very uncomfortable - whats the point in that "

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Not wanting to get too political but are you suggesting a gay man can't be misogynistic?

The glasses of wine slip down deceptively quickly, the first time i went i was one of the last people to sit down at about 11ish and managed a glass of champagne, 4 glasses of white and a glass of red with cheese before i headed off within the hour to catch the tube so coffee was the "sensible" option - those chairs seemed awfully high off the ground....

NEVER in the fridge - there have been some other threads on this too ref to cooking uses